Much of the threads on this HN article seem to focus on different perspectives on the term itself, and what it means. Its contemporary usage primarily indicate

Much of the threads on this HN article seem to focus on different perspectives on the term itself, and what it means. Its contemporary usage primarily indicates websites which purport to be local news organizations which instead write fabricated articles with specific deceptive intent. Unfortunately, some have taken to hijacking the term to describe "articles/publications that I choose not to believe, or that I have come to believe are not credible." I think it's this ambiguity (depending on the speaker) that causes some distaste for this term. But I think we should instead choose to embrace the former meaning and reject the latter. Or if absolutely, positively necessary, consider the latter to be the true meaning and come up with a new term to describe the former. I don't think we need to throw up our hands in the face of this lexical challenge. To do so would forfeit all debates to some epistemological quandary.